💡A new study from @WUSTLmed in St. Louis provides evidence that #COVID19 patients’ #heart damage is caused by the #coronavirus invading and replicating inside heart muscle cells, leading to cell death and interfering with heart muscle contraction.
⚠️Covid-19 Can Kill Heart Muscle Cells, Interfere With Contraction─“Our study is unique because it definitively shows that, in patients with #COVID19 who developed #heartfailure, the #coronavirus infects the #heart, specifically heart muscle cells.” medicine.wustl.edu/news/covid-19-…
Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes Are Susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 Infection
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#SARSCoV2 Infection Alters Contractility in hiPSC-CMs─30-second video clips were taken of mock and infected hiPSC-CMs at 72 h after viral infection. Cells were infected at MOI 0.1
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